Chapter 9. Configuring and Troubleshooting TCP/IP Networking

This chapter focuses on managing network and wireless connections, which are used to communicate on a network. For networking to work properly, you must install networking components and configure network communications by using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS). DHCP is used for dynamic configuration of networking and IP address settings. Both DNS and WINS provide name resolution services. DNS is the preferred service, and WINS is ...

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